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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.

Keith Richards

There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
KEITH RICHARDS

Day Demon Himself Myself
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
KEITH RICHARDS

Growth Reach Thinking True Yourself
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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Himself Play
You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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Moon Stone Sun Yourself
What is life but playing with time?
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Life Play Time
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Alcohol Wasted Yourself
I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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Encouragement Give Up Instrument People Play Try Writing
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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Ideas Music Mysterious Work Yourself
When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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Influence Listening Myself Thinking Work
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Death Fame Kill Talent
No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Break Heart Broken Neck
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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Himself Musician Old Water Writing
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Country Myself Place Room
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Music Problem Roll Talk
I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Myself Smoking Stop
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Feeling Happiness People Yourself
If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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Authority Yourself
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Audience Ideas Myself
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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Different Story Talk Way
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Death Funny Live Myself
To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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Alive Known Live Planet Reason
I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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Body Encouragement Known Myself
If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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Cool Known Myself
If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Cool Thinking Yourself
I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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Death Disappointment Myself
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Missing Sleep Song Stay Yourself

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